Under the current mayor, this old science fiction movie set in 1997 is on the road to becoming reality, two decades or so late.
Posted on 06/05/2014 6:56:26 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
I don’t even know what to say. Via the New York Post (hat tip to NRO), more than half of the members of the New York City Council have served Walmart with a letter demanding that the company stop making millions of dollars in charitable donations to local groups:
Twenty-six of the 51 members of the Council charged in the letter that the world’s biggest retailer’s support of local causes is a cynical ploy to enter the market here.
“We know how desperate you are to find a foothold in New York City to buy influence and support here,” says the letter, obtained by The Post and addressed to Walmart and the Walton Family Foundation.
“Stop spending your dangerous dollars in our city,” the testy letter demands. “That’s right: this is a cease-and-desist letter.”
Last week, Walmart announced that it distributed $3 million last year to charities here, including $1 million to the New York Women’s Foundation, which offers job training, and $30,000 to Bailey House, which distributes groceries to low-income residents.
Well. How very spiteful and heinously out-of-touch of them. Here’s Neil Cavuto interviewing dancing circles around New York City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer in defense of the letter this afternoon:
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And Walmart can’t be in NYC because?? Unions??
Because they don’t donate to leftists?
You can bet it’s unions. It’s time for real american companies to say F*** NYC and pull all of the assets and charitable contributions out. Let them support themselves.
The City Council wants Walmart to go away.Charity will be doled out by the council,and only the council.Go away Walmart,can’t you see that we’re busy playing God here.
—NYC —example #1 of inmates taking over the asylum-—compared to Chicago where the criminals did long ago-—
Walmart, take your money and send it where it will do some good and people appreciate it. These people in NYC are a lost cause to Satan...................
Even setting aside the idiocy of government objection to charitable contributions, how about the utter indecency of government prohibiting a specific company to carry on business in a place solely on political grounds?
I wonder if they sent the same letter to the various fag groups and NAMBLA and pro-jihadis? If I were Wal-Mart, I would present this letter to my lawyers as prima facie evidence of discrimination and restraint of trade. These tinhorn tyrants need to be sued into oblivion.
Is this for real or are New York council members that stupid? I think it’s probably the latter.
Money has no smell. Walmart is a legitimate business, and can donate to whomever it wishes. It is not as though they made their money stealing from people they’d turned over to the government.
ping
Dear Walmart,
I was recently made aware of your dialogue with the New York City Council. I am therefore, very pleased to make you aware of my organization, The Ouchthatonehurt Home for Dangerous Dollars. We have been taking in unwanted cash donations from organizations such as yours for well over, er...uh, well, we just started now.
Ouch
The arrogance and hubris of elected and non-elected government officials at all levels, is repugnant.
Leftists believe that Government should be the sole source of charity.
Bingo!
Liberalism is a mental disorder, there is no doubt.
Besides, Wallmart might not donate to the city approved charities. This is why they need to tax everyone to death so they can dole out the charity.
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